Ramadan begins this week and so we ask some of our Muslim listeners to share what they are

praying for this year.

Hello my name is Imman Sada.

My wish for this Ramadan is that we will achieve a ceasefire and there will be no more bombing

and shelling on top of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

This is Meredith Spano.

I think that the whole oma this year is going to be praying for Palestine.

I personally will also be praying for my sister this year who's expecting her first

child in June. My name is Sultan Min Haas. I think especially during the

Holy month of Ramzan when we are going to be praying day and night

Our prayers will always include the people of Palestine

Ramadon this year feels different especially for Palestinian Palestinian Americans, says Iman Abdel Hadi, she is a professor at the University of Chicago whose research

focuses on Muslim Americans. Every moment of joy feels stolen and elicits a sense of guilt.

Guilt because of the mass death and suffering in Gaza.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamass war, and many more are starving.

To now fast knowing that hundreds of thousands of people don't have that meal at the end of the day and that it's an

entirely avoidable situation. That is so painful to sit with.

That's a sentiment shared by Leila Al-Hadad.

She's a Palestinian author based in the U.S.

My family members are all scattered throughout Gaza's. Several of them are in Gaza City in the north,

completely cut off from humanitarian aid trucks and from the rest of our family members who are in the south and they are literally

struggling to survive and feed themselves. Al-hadad has lost family members in the

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